FreeBSD ZFS advocacy

[David Chisnall]

On 30 Mar 2015, at 21:36, Kevin Zheng <kevinz5000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 03/30/2015 03:53, k4t at 3msg.es wrote:
>> I'm proposing to a medium size enterprise to use a FreeBSD ZFS 
>> installation on commodity hardware for a NAS/SAN storage
>> implementation.
>> 
>> The actual implementation is quite small itself, around 8-12TB
>> usable space presented as iSCSI or cifs, for a TV recording system,
>> with a second device of similar capacity for a backup.
> 
> A good starting point is FreeNAS [1], a storage solution built on
> FreeBSD and ZFS. Even if you're not looking at using FreeNAS itself,
> there are a lot of testimonials and rationale for using FreeBSD as a
> storage system in general. You may also want to look at the FreeBSD
> advocacy page [2] if you haven't already.

You could also try contacting iX directly.  If your company likes proprietary solutions, then iX can sell you something that looks to management like a proprietary system, even if it doesn't to the people actually using it...

David